Leading Facts of American History

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CONTENTS

PAGE

LEADING DATES

xii

TEXT

1.

THE DISCOVERY AND NAMING OF AMERICA, 1492-1522

1

II.

ATTEMPTS AT EXPLORING AND COLONIZING AMERICA

20

III.

PERMANENT ENGLISH AND FRENCH SETTLEMENTS; THE
     THIRTEEN COLONIES

41

IV.

THE REVOLUTION; THE CONSTITUTION, 1763-I789

134

V.

THE UNION -- NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT;
   THE FEDERALIST PARTY IN POWER

177

VI.

THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY IN POWER

191

VII.

THE NEW DEMOCRACY

226

VIII.

THE CIVIL WAR, 1861-1865; THE REPUBLICAN PARTY IN
   POWER

280

IX.

RECONSTRUCTION -- THE NEW NATION, 1865 TO THE PRES-
     ENT TIME

328

APPENDIX

1.

THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE (WITH AN
     INTRODUCTION AND NOTES)

i

2.

THE CONSTITUTION (WITH AN INTRODUCTION AND NOTES)

vi

3.

TABLE OF ADMISSION OF STATES

xxiv

4.

TABLE OF PRESIDENTS

xxviii

5.

LIST OF BOOKS ON AMERICAN HISTORY

xxx

6.

TABLE OF BOUNDARIES OF THE UNITED STATES

xxxvii

7.

TABLES OF POPULATION AND REPRESENTATION OF THE
     UNITED STATES

xxxix

8.

QUESTIONS (not included in this reproduction)

xli

9.

TOPICAL ANALYSIS

lvii

INDEX (WITH NUMEROUS DATES AND THE PRONUNCIATION OF
   DIFFICULT WORDS)

lxxiii

NOTE: Please go to Index pages for multiple links to the computer pages.

ix

LIST OF LARGER MAPS

PAGE

I.

The World about the Time of Columbus

5

II.

Expeditions of De Soto and Coronado

23

III.

Early Voyages to America and around the World

29

IV.

Indian Tribes of the United States (colored)

34

V.

Physical Features of the United States (with type page)

42-43

VI.

First Settlements made on the Eastern Coast of North America

51

VII.

Homes of the Pilgrims in England and Holland

67

VIII.

The Thirteen English Colonies and the French Settlements

111

IX.

The French and Indian Wars

114

X.

The Revolutionary War--Northern States (colored)

140

XI.

The Revolutionary War--the Southern States (colored)

162

XII.

The United States at the Close of the Revolution (colored)

170

XIII.

The Northwest Territory, 1787 (colored)

172

XIV.

The United States in 1792 (colored)

194

XV.

The War of 1812

203

XVI.

The Missouri Compromise, 1820

214

XVII.

The Mexican War

253

XVIII.

Area of Freedom and Slavery, 1857

270

XIX.

The United States, 1861-1865 (double page, colored)

284

XX.

Territorial Growth of the United States (double page, colored)

332

XXI.

The United States at the Present Time (double page, colored)

358

XXII.

The United States and Island Possessions (colored)

380

XXIII.

German Battle Lines (1918)

419

XXIV.

Where our Men fought in the Great War (colored)

428

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LIST OF LARGER ILLUSTRATIONS

PAGE

I.

American Soldiers in Paris saluting the Statue of

     Washington, July 4, 1918

Frontispiece

II.

Columbus approaching Land

11

Ill.

Captain John Smith

49

IV.

Penn's Charter

102-103

V.

Washington before the Revolution

118

VI.

Benjamin Franklin

133

VII.

Franklin's Letter to Strahan (script)

147

VIII.

Thomas Jefferson

151

IX.

Alexander Hamilton

181

X.

Henry Clay

220

XI.

John C. Calhoun

233

XII.

Daniel Webster

235

XIII.

Abraham Lincoln

275

XIV.

Grant's "Unconditional. Surrender" Letter (script)

293

XV.

General Lee

299

XVI.

Lincoln's Proclamation of Emancipation (script)

303

XVII.

The High-Water-Mark Monument at Gettysburg

304

XVIII.

Soldiers' Monument at Gettysburg

305

XIX.

View from Lookout Mountain

311

XX.

General Grant

313

XXI.

Admiral Farragut with Porter and Foote (Civil War)

317

XXII.

Generals Sherman, Sheridan, Thomas, Hooker, and Hancock

     (Civil War)

319

XXIII.

Sherman's Field Order announcing Lee's Surrender

322

XXIV.

Lee's Letter to Grant (Script)

323

XXV.

Spanish War, -- Naval Commanders

375

XXVI.

Spanish War, -- Army Commanders

379

XXVII.

Commanders in the Great War

415

XXVIII.

A Town destroyed in Western France

422

XXIX.

Pershing's Victorious Army in Washington

433

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LEADING DATES

1492. Columbus discovers America (§ ii).
1497. Cabot discovers the Continent (§ 14).
1541. Discovery of the Mississippi (§ 21).
1585. English Colonization begins (§ 27).
1607. The English settle Jamestown (§ 46).
1619. Representative Government (§ 51).
1619. Negro Slavery introduced (§ 52).
1620. The Pilgrims settle Plymouth (§ 73).
1626. Purchase of Manhattan Island (§ 60).
1630. The Puritans settle Boston (§ 77).
1636. Harvard College founded (§ 80).
1636. Entire Religious Freedom in Rhode Island (§ 108).
1639. First Printing Press (§ 80).
1639. The Constitution of Connecticut (§ 96).
1643. New England Confederation (§ 81).
1647. Public Schools established (§ 80).
1649. Act of Toleration in Maryland (§ 102).
1675. King Philip's War (§ 86).
1676. The Bacon Rebellion (§ 55).
1704. First Newspaper established (§ 146).
1763. Treaty of Peace with France (§ 143).
1765. The Stamp Act (§ 157).
1773. The Colonists destroy taxed Tea (§ 159).
1774. First Continental Congress (§ 160).
1775. Lexington and Concord (§ 161).
1775. Battle of Bunker Hill (§ 163).
1776. Declaration of Independence (§ 167).
1777. Burgoyne's Surrender (§ 179).
1781. Surrender of Cornwallis (§ 189).
1781. Articles of Confederation (§ 192).
1783. Treaty of Peace (§ 191).
1787. Ordinance of Eighty-seven (§ 195).
1787. The Constitution adopted (§ 196).
1789. The Constitution in Force (§ 199).
1789. The First Tariff (§ 200).
1790. Paying off the Public Debt (§ 201).
1790. The First Census (§ 202).
1791. First United States Bank (§ 202).
1792. Rise of Political Parties (§ 203).
1792. Claim to Oregon (§ 216).
1793. Proclamation of Neutrality (§ 203).
1795. Jay's Treaty (§ 207).
1798-1799. The Kentucky and Virginia Reso- lutions (§ 210).
1801. Fulton's Submarine (§ 220).
1803. Purchase of Louisiana (§ 215).
1807. The First Steamboat (§ 220).
1811. The National Road begun (§ 244).
1812. War with England (§ 226).
1814. The Hartford Convention 233).
1816. Second Bank of the United States (§ 265).
1816. First Savings Bank (§ 423).
1819. Purchase of Florida (§ 238).
1820. The Missouri Compromise (§ 243).
1823. The Monroe Doctrine (§ 246).

1825. The Erie Canal opened (§ 250).
1830. The First Passenger Railway (§ 254).
1831. The Liberator published (§ 262).
1832. Jackson vetoes the Bank Bill (§ 265).
1832. Nullification in South Carolina (§ 267).
1835. Colt's Revolver (§ 284).
1836. Friction Matches (§ 284).
1837. Great Financial Panic (§ 275).
1840. Photography introduced (§ 284).
1844. First Telegraph Line opened (§ 284).
1844. Goodyear's Vulcanized Rubber (§ 284).
1845. Annexation of Texas (§ 285).
1845. The Horse Reaper and Mower (§ 303).
1846. Ether begins to come into use (§ 284).
1846. Howe's Sewing Machine (§ 303).
1846. Hoe's Cylinder Printing Press (§ 303).
1846-1848. The Mexican War (§ 290).
1848. Mexican Land Cessions (§ 294).
1848. Discovery of Gold in California (§ 295).
1850. Compromise on Slavery (§ 299).
1854. Kansas-Nebraska Act (§ 305).
1857. The Dred Scott Case (§ 310).
1861. The Civil War begins (§ 320).
1861. Gatling Machine Gun (§ 441).
1862. Cold Storage (§ 397).
1863. National Banks established (§ 324).
1863. Emancipation Proclamation (§ 340).
1863. Gettysburg and Vicksburg (§§ 343, 344).
1865. New Process for making Steel (§ 407).
1866. Atlantic Cable laid (§ 367).
1867. Reconstruction Act (§ 364).
1867. Purchase of Alaska (§ 368).
1869. First Railway to the Pacific (§ 370).
1871. Arbitration Treaty with England (§ 374).
1872. Otis Passenger Elevator (§ 408).
1874. The Typewriter (§ 373).
1876. The Brush Electric Light (§ 373).
1876. The Telephone invented (§ 373).
1879. Specie Payment resumed (§ 379).
1883. Civil Service Reform (§ 381).
1888. Trolley Cars in Use (§ 373).
1895. Edison's Moving Pictures (§ 373).
1896. Wireless Telegraphy (§ 284).
1898. War with Spain (§ 414).
1898. Territorial Expansion (§ 419).
1899. Automobiles come into Use (§ 435).
1900. The Gold Standard Act (§ 425).
1903. The Wrights' Aëroplane (§ 373).
1908. Conservation of Resources (§ 430).
1914. Proclamation of Neutrality (§ 441).
1914. Panama Canal opened (§§ 425, 440).
1914. New System of Banks (§ 440).
1917. War with Germany (§ 445).
1919. Read's Transatlantic Flight (§ 373).
1920. Prohibition Amendment (§ 257).
1920 Woman Suffrage Amendment (§ 395).

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		PAGE
LEADING DATES		xii
TEXT
1.	THE DISCOVERY AND NAMING OF AMERICA, 1492-1522	1
II.	ATTEMPTS AT EXPLORING AND COLONIZING AMERICA	20
III.	PERMANENT ENGLISH AND FRENCH SETTLEMENTS; THE THIRTEEN COLONIES	41
IV.	THE REVOLUTION; THE CONSTITUTION, 1763-I789	134
V.	THE UNION -- NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT; THE FEDERALIST PARTY IN POWER	177
VI.	THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY IN POWER	191
VII.	THE NEW DEMOCRACY	226
VIII.	THE CIVIL WAR, 1861-1865; THE REPUBLICAN PARTY IN POWER	280
IX.	RECONSTRUCTION -- THE NEW NATION, 1865 TO THE PRES- ENT TIME	328

APPENDIX

1.	THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE (WITH AN INTRODUCTION AND NOTES)	i
2.	THE CONSTITUTION (WITH AN INTRODUCTION AND NOTES)	vi
3.	TABLE OF ADMISSION OF STATES	xxiv
4.	TABLE OF PRESIDENTS	xxviii
5.	LIST OF BOOKS ON AMERICAN HISTORY	xxx
6.	TABLE OF BOUNDARIES OF THE UNITED STATES	xxxvii
7.	TABLES OF POPULATION AND REPRESENTATION OF THE UNITED STATES	xxxix
8.	QUESTIONS (not included in this reproduction)	xli
9.	TOPICAL ANALYSIS	lvii

INDEX (WITH NUMEROUS DATES AND THE PRONUNCIATION OF DIFFICULT WORDS)		lxxiii
	NOTE: Please go to Index pages for multiple links to the computer pages.

		PAGE
I.	The World about the Time of Columbus	5
II.	Expeditions of De Soto and Coronado	23
III.	Early Voyages to America and around the World	29
IV.	Indian Tribes of the United States (colored)	34
V.	Physical Features of the United States (with type page)	42-43
VI.	First Settlements made on the Eastern Coast of North America	51
VII.	Homes of the Pilgrims in England and Holland	67
VIII.	The Thirteen English Colonies and the French Settlements	111
IX.	The French and Indian Wars	114
X.	The Revolutionary War--Northern States (colored)	140
XI.	The Revolutionary War--the Southern States (colored)	162
XII.	The United States at the Close of the Revolution (colored)	170
XIII.	The Northwest Territory, 1787 (colored)	172
XIV.	The United States in 1792 (colored)	194
XV.	The War of 1812	203
XVI.	The Missouri Compromise, 1820	214
XVII.	The Mexican War	253
XVIII.	Area of Freedom and Slavery, 1857	270
XIX.	The United States, 1861-1865 (double page, colored)	284
XX.	Territorial Growth of the United States (double page, colored)	332
XXI.	The United States at the Present Time (double page, colored)	358
XXII.	The United States and Island Possessions (colored)	380
XXIII.	German Battle Lines (1918)	419
XXIV.	Where our Men fought in the Great War (colored)	428

		PAGE
I.	American Soldiers in Paris saluting the Statue of
	Washington, July 4, 1918	Frontispiece
II.	Columbus approaching Land	11
Ill.	Captain John Smith	49
IV.	Penn's Charter	102-103
V.	Washington before the Revolution	118
VI.	Benjamin Franklin	133
VII.	Franklin's Letter to Strahan (script)	147
VIII.	Thomas Jefferson	151
IX.	Alexander Hamilton	181
X.	Henry Clay	220
XI.	John C. Calhoun	233
XII.	Daniel Webster	235
XIII.	Abraham Lincoln	275
XIV.	Grant's "Unconditional. Surrender" Letter (script)	293
XV.	General Lee	299
XVI.	Lincoln's Proclamation of Emancipation (script)	303
XVII.	The High-Water-Mark Monument at Gettysburg	304
XVIII.	Soldiers' Monument at Gettysburg	305
XIX.	View from Lookout Mountain	311
XX.	General Grant	313
XXI.	Admiral Farragut with Porter and Foote (Civil War)	317
XXII.	Generals Sherman, Sheridan, Thomas, Hooker, and Hancock
	(Civil War)	319
XXIII.	Sherman's Field Order announcing Lee's Surrender	322
XXIV.	Lee's Letter to Grant (Script)	323
XXV.	Spanish War, -- Naval Commanders	375
XXVI.	Spanish War, -- Army Commanders	379
XXVII.	Commanders in the Great War	415
XXVIII.	A Town destroyed in Western France	422
XXIX.	Pershing's Victorious Army in Washington	433